A group of historians is urging the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to reconsider name changes to schools that carry the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Henry Dundas, and Egerton Ryerson, calling the recent trend of renaming buildings and roads and removing statues of historical figures across Canada “ill-considered.”
“We believe the recent epidemic of historic statue removal and renaming of roads, buildings, and institutions to be on the whole ill-considered and driven more by popular opinion and prejudice than by thorough research and analysis,” the Canadian Institute for Historical Education (CIHE) said in a Feb. 6 letter.
